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Jane returned to Malfoy Manor, much of the surprise of Lucius, who Jane finally noticed, that she was fully awake, had been in Azkaban, she looked at his eyes, she'd seen it before on the front of a newspaper. As soon as she noticed, he turned away, and Jane turned to Narcissa, for an explanation.

"I warned him," she said.

"Warned?" asked Jane.

"It started with you..." she began.

"No! It did not, my prison experience has nothing to do with you Jane, and if I have to say that again, by Merlin...this marriage..." began Lucius.

"This marriage what? What position are you in? Either of us to go to the ministry? In-case you have forgotten, you have no power anymore," said Narcissa.

"You had better hope it stays that way, Jane, go and find your family, he's many things, but a man of his word he really is, you're in no danger. You're too like him, apart from the end result," added Lucius.

"I found them, Narcissa, you can blame me for everything, but just for that...I'm going to get you out of this, where's Draco?" asked Jane.

"With my sister," replied Narcissa.

"Who? You never told me you have a sister," added Jane.

"Escaped prisoner, Bellatrix Lestrange, decided to kill her cousin, and got away with it, unlike me, who was almost blamed for that too," added Lucius.

"Oh Lucius! Just forget about it will you? Sirius won't be missed," added Narcissa.

Jane's eyes widened, she turned back to Narcissa, with nothing but pure surprise in her eyes. Narcissa, however, would never understand why.

"You're cousin, was Sirius Black, your sister killed him?" she asked.

"Welcome to the family Jane, you're part of the Malfoys, and you're part of the Blacks. For the record..." began Narcissa.

"He was innocent, and never got the chance, to lead a normal life, but spite all of that, there were people out there, people who cared for him, unlike his own family who saw him dead!" shouted Jane.

She felt very empathetic towards Sasha and Sirius, unlike her, Sasha didn't even get the chance, to have the forbidden love that she wanted, with her father and Sirius being enemies, it could have made Sasha stronger. A light turned on in her eyes, this time, family could wait for their own good, because her oldest friend needed her, and Jane came to a compromise. Lucius tried to stop her leaving, but it was too late. Jane returned to Hogwarts, and back to where she left Sasha, without knocking, she went in.

"What are you doing here? You're meant to be..." began Sasha.

"No I'm not. The Malfoys have each other, your father can't be expected to sort you and a school out, brilliant though he is. We both have family, but they can't help us, but we can help each other. I need you to get out of the castle, and come to Wales with me. You'll want to see, you're future God-children when we get out of this mess, but I need back up for if I'm followed home. Can you fight?" asked Jane.

"I suppose it can't get any worse, what have I got to loose, when there's so much I can gain? Father never told me who did it, but I'm sure to hit the person, who killed him...why are you looking like that? You know something! I know that look, I saw it in class often enough! Oh Merlin! Did Lucius kill Sirius like I thought?" asked Sasha.

"No! Lucius is many things, but the charge of murder needs to go! Lestrange! Narcissa's sister killed Sirius, that's part of the reason I left to get you out of here, because now I know I can count on you, to get the death-eaters if they come near," replied Jane.

"You'd use my grief to save your own family?" asked Sasha.

"Our family! They are your god-children too, you can save them and respect Sirius' memory. You're a witch, multi-task!" shouted Jane.

"Don't bloody shout at me! You always shout at me when you prove me wrong!" shouted Sasha.

"And you always swear at me when I do!" added Jane.

The two witches, went to Wales, from not too far away from where Jane knew where the house was, she sent up red sparks, that muggle took for fireworks.

"This is madness!" snarled Sasha.

"Voldemort's kept his word, that's not actually that good...Oh come on Marcus!" added Jane.

Finally, Marcus ran towards Jane and Sasha. He was shocked and pleased to see them both, Jane ran to him, and they all ended up inside, Jane picked up her baby, and Stephan ran to her.

"What happened to you?" asked Marcus.

"I was taken, I'm sorry...Sasha...here, this is Jasmine...Stephan, this is Auntie Sasha," replied Jane.

As Sasha looked after the children, Marcus and Jane went to the kitchen, rather advanced for a young couple as they had lived with each other, continuously. Marcus glared at her, expecting her to explain, but Jane didn't know where to begin.

"Well, what's going on? How did you escape?" he asked.

"A happy coincidence that the dark lord, spent some time in care too," replied Jane.

"What has that got to do with anything?" he asked.

"I'm not a lunatic and he is. What's the difference between me and him? I have you and the children, I know how to love and he does not," she replied.

"He let you go for that?" he asked.

"He's let us go, Lucius is in terrible trouble and not just for helping us, Sasha is in their, half the person I left, because his sister in law, killed her cousin, who also happened to be the love of her life. Professor Snape has taken Dumbledore's place and I've not heard where he is yet, he could be dead for all I know, which would explain the full take-over," she replied.

"I know what happened to him, dad killed him!" called Sasha.

Jane and Marcus marched back, into their living room.

"What?"

"It's not what you think, please don't judge him, enough people do that, who don't know the truth, but I do. I was told to say nothing, but like you said Jane, you're part of my family too, now that I can call Jasmine and Stephan, god-children," added Sasha.

"So, what reason did Snape have to kill him? Apart from clearly gaining his job," added Marcus.

"You're not going to like this Jane, but again it links in with the Malfoys, it began after Sirius' death and Lucius' arrest..." began Sasha.

"I knew I shouldn't have left..." began Jane.

"Lucius gave us no choice, you'd never refuse him and you know it. Carry on Sasha," added Marcus.

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The whole of the Flint family, and Sasha returned to Hogwarts. Professor Snape, found them a place to stay within the castle, while Jane, went to the office, a bigger office than the one she was used to as a student, however she noticed a few things missing, including the phoenix.

"You're a lucky woman Jane," said Professor Snape.

"I'd give anything to say the same about you," added Jane.

"She told you?" he asked.

"I'd have found out, in the end how he died, and it wouldn't have added up. I'd have figured it out soon enough. Sir," began Jane.

"I don't want to hear, how sorry you are, or any rubbish, Jane. I want you, to leave me to do my job, and look after my..." began Professor Snape.

"I can't do that anymore. I have my whole family, to take care of. I'm not sure if I can be, the other one responsible for Sasha..." began Jane.

"What is that supposed to mean?" he asked.

"You've forced me to act like her mother since first year, before Marcus, I was practically married to you, scary though it sounds, it is true. But don't you see? She's an adult too now, she's got responsibility over my kids now. She's got more about her than you give credit," she replied.

"What are you keeping from me?" he asked.

"If you made more of an effort you'd know, until then, I won't tell tales to daddy, it's a girly secret, but any other parent would have noticed," she replied.

"You dare question my parenting skills?" he asked.

"There's nothing to question sir, because you have none, I saw a flicker of it once, end of fourth year, but that was all. You treated her no different to the others, and no wonder you were pleased to see me," she replied.

"Do you want to stay in this castle?" he asked.

"I'm trying to get you closer to your daughter! We're all on borrowed time, I don't know how long I have with my family, I bet before the war is over, either I'll loose them or they will loose me, I can feel it," she replied.

"You run your family, and I will run mine," he added.

"Oh really? This I have to see!" snapped Jane.

As she expected, one look from Professor McGonagall, reminded her that no Slytherin was trusted by the light, if they won. Jane had escaped the mark, but she could see the family under arrest for suspicion due to both families having involvement, unlike her parents, Jane planned to do all that she could to keep her family together. She went back to were they were all staying, Marcus only needed to look at her once, to know that the meeting hadn't gone well. Jane rolled her eyes, and spoke in a sarcastic tone.

"I have a confession to make, before you, I had a six year, unofficial marriage with Professor Snape," she said.

"Right...the meeting went well then?" asked Marcus.

"That man, needs to sort out his priorities. As much as I want to, I can't look out for Sasha as much as I used to, granted she's a bit younger than me, but she's still an adult and, I have my own family now," replied Jane.

"You can't save the world Jane, let Sasha do what she wants and the same goes for Lucius if you don't mind," added Marcus.

Jane looked at him, with surprise.

"Marcus!"

"I mean it! You just said you have your own family..." began Marcus.

"Which includes Lucius! Marcus you owe him this family's life! It's time to pay your wizard's debt," added Jane.

"He did that for you! Not me, I have no debt to that man," argued Marcus.

"If it wasn't for him, there wouldn't be an us, and we wouldn't have the children. You owe him more than you think. Just think about it," said Jane.

"I have! Family first, family second, anything left, family again. I mean it, I will not loose my wife because of Lucius Malfoy, do you understand me?" asked Marcus.

"I understand Marcus, that really you have no loyalty to this family. Remember why your son shares the same middle name as my guardian's first?" asked Jane.

"He is not your guardian any more!" snapped Marcus.

Jane glared at him, and Marcus knew that meant, that he would be on the sofa that night. Sure enough, Jane slammed the bedroom door in his face, looked around the room, pin-pointing all of her things. She grabbed a large suitcase and began throwing in large clothing and small. Jane was going to leave Marcus, take Jasmine and Stephan and go back to Malfoy Manor. She crept passed Marcus, with two sleeping babies in her arms, trunk, shrunken and in a robe pocket. Jane knew that she had to take a different route, by Knightbus to Malfoy Manor.

"Malfoy Manor...if you don't like it, just as close as you can will do," she said.

"I'm not comfortable..."

"Twenty galleons, take it or leave it," added Jane.

It worked, Jane soon found herself, hurrying up the path of Malfoy Manor, and banging on the door. Lucius looked up, and out of the window. He moved rapidly to the door, and answered it.

"Jane?" he asked.

"Marcus might think he owes you nothing, but it's about time I paid back my wizard debt. You looked after me, now I shall look after you," she replied.

"Jane, you can't...you've taken his children," he said.

"And if he wants them, he has to come here. I didn't promise to obey his every command when I got married. He wants his parental and husbandry rights, he can come and get them. He said himself, family first, family second and if there's anything left, family again," she said.

"It's the middle of the night, this air will do the children no good. Come in," said Lucius.

Jane walked into the manor, not knowing that she had been followed, by her friend, Sasha Snape, who watched her walk in, with concern on her face.

"I can't let her throw her marriage away," she said.